According to TMZ, the word translates to "dirty Jewess", and has been used as a slur against Jewish people since the Holocaust.

A rabbi from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has written an open letter to the Ukrainian government to "express [their] outrage and indignation against the slanders of the Svoboda Party directed against the Jewish community in the Ukraine".

The letter goes on to insist the Prime Minister "condemn this attack and to take measures to defeat the xenophobic forces that threaten [Ukraine's] democracy".